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RE: Adventures in the Lives of Cattle Farmers: Bottle Feeding a Newborn Calf
Great pictures and hope the calf gets accepted. Won't the mother cow 'know' naturally. we are farmers too. I mean I married a farmer cum medical dealer. We have a mother cow and a calf.
I was raised in a city but have come to love farm life. It is work 24/7 but also very rewarding because of the free water, unpolluted air and so on.
Have you named the calf?
The circumstances surrounding an abandoned calf can be very interesting. We had another instance where a mother cow had twins, but had only taken one of them. We found the other poor little guy huddled under a wood pile, so we loaded him up in the back of the truck and took him over to the mother cow who had the smallest calf. She ended up taking both of them!
Not sure what happened with this little guy, but my aunt has aptly named him "Little Bit" because he's still so small. Glad to know there are some other people who have cow experiences here! Thanks for sharing.